Alan Keyes Speak: A Language No One Understands

Like eeveryone else: Andrew Sullivan wonders how the hell did Alan Keyes got in the recent Iowa debate? Sullivan points out this bizarre exchanfe Keyes had with the moderator.

“Ambassador, I’m going to ask you one more time. Have you personally been doing campaign events here in Iowa in the last few months?”

“I have had several campaign events here in Iowa, but I will not define those events as you do,” he said.

“In the last few months?”

“I don’t define those events as you do."

Keyes response reminds me of Bill Clinton asking for the definition of the word is.

Tas wondered if Keyes is even on the ballot in any state.

If Keyes wants to play, he's got a right to run, but to be elevated on the same stage with candidates who -- like'em or not -- have put actual effort into their campaigns is a travesty. Before Keyes debate, somebody should have asked "Where's his organization? Supporters? Donaters? Hell, does he have a campaign office?"

The fact that the American Enterprise Institute let Keyes and John Bolton through the door says much about the think tank.

Update: I confused Barack Obama with Alan Keyes in a sentence. I will make sure that never happens again.

To answer Tas's question: Keyes and Bolton both have been members of AEI. I doubt AEI got Keyes into the debate.